Brain-eating amoebae were found in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana ... Wednesday to kill the amoeba, the department said in a release Tuesday. Residents, over the next two months, "may notice a change in the smell and taste of the water throughout the …

GONZALES, La. (AP) — As a cautionary measure, Ascension Parish officials are disinfecting water lines in a west bank parish water district that had brain-eating amoeba elsewhere on its system this summer. Parish officials said Wednesday the …

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Ascension Parish disinfecting water lines in district that had brain-eating amoeba elsewhere

GONZALES, Louisiana — As a cautionary measure, Ascension Parish officials are disinfecting water lines in a west bank parish water district that had brain-eating amoeba elsewhere on its system this summer. Parish officials said Wednesday the …

The brain-eating amoeba naegleria fowleri was found in water in Ascension Parish, Louisiana and St. Bernard Parish. Health officials have ordered a 60-day chlorine burn to eliminate any remaining threat. VPC Naegleriasis is an infection of the brain by the ...

Louisiana officials have cautioned residents to be careful after a deadly brain-eating amoeba was found in a parish ... water will still be safe to drink. While the amoeba is extremely rare, the pathogen was responsible for at least three deaths in ...

Naegleria fowleri, which is commonly referred to as brain-eating amoeba, has been found in a water system that serves three towns, Louisiana ... stomach.” Officials said Naegleria fowleri has been found in part of St. John the Baptist Parish and warned ...

BATON ROUGE, La. –Louisiana health officials have confirmed the presence of an amoeba at a leaking sample station in the St. Bernard Parish water system, CBS New Orleans affiliate WWL reports. The state’s Department of Health and Hospitals has …

It’s never comfortable to get water up your nose. But in Louisiana, scientists have found traces of a rare amoeba in the water supply ... nose clips while swimming. City officials say they began flushing the parish’s water lines with chlorine ...

It’s never comfortable to get water up your nose. But in Louisiana, scientists have found traces of a rare amoeba in the water supply ... nose clips while swimming. City officials say they began flushing the parish’s water lines with chlorine ...

Brain-eating amoeba found in water system in Ascension Parish, but officials say water still safe to drink

A brain-eating amoeba has been found in a water system in Ascension Parish, officials said Tuesday ... a week after St. Bernard Parish received the same positive results, the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals reported. The parasite has caused ...